My history. 80's/90's hatches, RSs, 911s and a few bikes
Discussion
Marky911 said:
Barryonyx - Cheers. Yep the VFRs are mega cool little bikes. I've been watching a few on Ebay lately. If you're six foot though they're only good for maybe a blast to Rothbury and back. A nice little thing to collect though. When I had mine we were doing Cramlington - Haydon Bridge - Hartside - Kendal - Devils Bridge - Hawes, then back the same way. 300 miles in a day. Sore wrists.
I don't remember the import place near Quayside. Typical as I even worked at the bottom Byker bank for a couple of years. Mine came form Bebside. Bunch of crooks. They're gone now. Vine Place was the big one really, down near Ferryhill, Durham. They knew how to charge though.
If I could have a Cosworth or MR2 now, I'd take the Cosworth, even a Sapphire. The MR2 feels sportier and is a better B road blaster but for something rare to keep hold of the Cosworths are a nice thing.
As you found out though you had to watch the MR2s a bit. Mind you I spun my Sapphire too, so....
I think I'm going to go for an SV650S this year. Hopefully it'll fit as an all-round bike, good for fun, light touring and commuting. Fitted with a good can, they sound amazing so that should keep me entertained!I don't remember the import place near Quayside. Typical as I even worked at the bottom Byker bank for a couple of years. Mine came form Bebside. Bunch of crooks. They're gone now. Vine Place was the big one really, down near Ferryhill, Durham. They knew how to charge though.
If I could have a Cosworth or MR2 now, I'd take the Cosworth, even a Sapphire. The MR2 feels sportier and is a better B road blaster but for something rare to keep hold of the Cosworths are a nice thing.
As you found out though you had to watch the MR2s a bit. Mind you I spun my Sapphire too, so....
I remember the Bebside dealer as a friend of mine had a Pajero from there. Apparently, they were importing as many of them as they could because they sold like hotcakes over here at one point.
I'd take the Cosworth over the MR2 too, if I had my time again. The Sapphire is easily my favourite sports saloon, I just love them. It was the fear of not being able to garage it at night, or worrying about it every time I took it out that put me off them. Couldn't go back to one now, especially since I don't have any secure parking at work anymore. I only ever lost the MR2 once, driving home from work at about 3AM in the frost. It was winter and I came down from Four Lane Ends, feeling the car slipping about. The roads hadn't been gritted and the new tyres were barely scrubbed in. I went to cross the Findus factory roundabout heading towards Sandy Lane and the car slid at 90' to a stop facing the roundabout. I must have been doing about 15mph, taking it very cautiously so I was more than a little surprised to feel the car slowly drift out and point the wrong way.
Funny, as in the dry it had loads of grip and the sharp steering meant you could pull back a little slide quite easily. It was far more reactive than my MX5 was.
marky911 said:
Cheers Matt and SM. Glad you can relate to it. Like I say, it's pretty much the experience most petrol heads had growing up. I've got literally dozens of daft things that happened but if I list too many it'll look like bullish*t. So many funny experiences though.
If I could have a Cosworth or MR2 now, I'd take the Cosworth, even a Sapphire. The MR2 feels sportier and is a better B road blaster but for something rare to keep hold of the Cosworths are a nice thing.
As you found out though you had to watch the MR2s a bit. Mind you I spun my Sapphire too, so....
If I could have a Cosworth or MR2 now, I'd take the Cosworth, even a Sapphire. The MR2 feels sportier and is a better B road blaster but for something rare to keep hold of the Cosworths are a nice thing.
As you found out though you had to watch the MR2s a bit. Mind you I spun my Sapphire too, so....
- haha! They can bite you quick can't they - especially if you're not used to cars with no traction control or modern safety netsI always wished I'd got more pics of some of my old stuff - I've lost a few along the way as well so haven't got the material ( or stuff like the Porsches/Ferraris ) for a write-up like this
Great effort
Afternoon! Really massive thanks for the comments. I’m back to the daily grind tonight so don’t have time to address everyone separately unfortunately, but honestly, It’s good to know it’s not boring people too much.
You always run the risk of being accused of willy-waving in these threads, but anyone who knows me knows I’m not a poser and anything I buy, I buy for it’s purpose/abilities.
I’m glad people are enjoying it. I’m certainly enjoying recalling things I’d almost forgotten and also reminiscing over which cars I liked best.
I’ll add one more vehicle today. Now I only had this for about 3 months but I’ll remember it for life and not in a negative way. You’ll see why in a minute. One of those key vehicles in my journey through life.
It was now autumn 2011 and having sold the Global and the GSXR I had a bit of spare cash for another toy if I wanted. I decided on another 964 C2 to go alongside my 964T, but long story short, they had risen to more than my budget. After looking for a couple of months and wasting almost £1000 on inspections (they were long distances away) I knocked the idea on the head.
So I toyed with the idea of selling the 964T for £25k and adding the £15k budget to it. I mentioned on a couple of forums I might sell and had a couple of people enquire but no sale. I never advertised it though as I loved it and wasn’t too sure I was doing the right thing.
Spring 2012 rolled around and I really wanted to blow my money and do something enjoyable. One vehicle I’d always longed for was a VW camper van, but the old air-cooled ones are just too slow to cover ground. I began reading up, I’d been buying mags for years on and off anyway and I noticed people fitting Subaru engines in later vans, “the Brick” T25. Not pretty but starting to look retro cool in certain guises. The conversion was easy due to this model already being water-cooled, well the later ones.
I found this one for sale on Ebay down in south London. Converted panel van, 2.5N/A Subaru Legacy engine, all camper converted etc. I asked the seller what his buy it now was and he said it had been £10k, but he’d take £9k. I said “I have £8200 so he said ok. I said I’d let him no for definite the next day. Well it was into the last 12 hours of the auction by now and only upto £4k-something so I thought “I’m about to pay too much for this!”.
So I watched the auction end and bid. Got it for £5200. A bit cheeky but you have to try. Can’t believe I nearly wasted £3k. I rang the guy up and he said “You just got yourself a cheap van didn’t you!”.
Anyway, this is what it looked like when I bought it -
A bit like the Global the fun started with the journey home.
Me and the girlfriend went down and stopped at her sisters on the Friday night, in Colchester. We got up Saturday morning and headed around the M25 to the 6 o’clock position, sorry I forget the name of the place.
The guy showed us round the van and all the paperwork totalling thousands. We shook hands and off we went, me in the van and my lass in her Focus. I led the way getting us onto the road home, the A1 or M1, I can’t remember which.
We got as far north as Donnington Services and stopped for a rest. My girlfriend was knackered and truth be told so was I, mind you my lass just couldn’t wait to try out the camper really. We hatched a plan to wild camp somewhere and head home the next morning. We bought some blankets from the services and headed off in to the countryside a bit.
We had a nice steak and a beer at a country pub and it was starting to get dark. I said “we better be heading off and find somewhere to stay.”
So we drove for a few miles my girlfriend still following in the Focus obviously and found a big carpark near a reservoir. Lovely setting with the sun going down.
We got out and had a quick walk to check out the area and it seemed fine. We no sooner got back in to the van though and a Land Rover pulled up next to us. This guy on his own just sat staring in. I said to my girlfriend “He might be the warden waiting for us to go”, but he just sat there. I got the map out to pretend we weren’t staying but he didn’t budge. I gave him a couple of inquisitive looks and he eventually drove away.
Two minutes later though and a Peugeot 307 pulls in and parks right next to us. Now this was getting silly. A huge carpark but people making a bee line straight for us.
I said “Come on we’re away” so we headed to a travel inn back at the services, not for a room, just to wild camp in their carpark. Hardly Outer Mongolia but hey.
Once we got settled I said to the girlfriend “Google that reservoir and see what comes up”. Sure enough it flashed up “Derbyshires number one dogging spot”.
Phew, I think we had a lucky escape. The pervs must have thought Xmas had come early. I pull up in a campervan looking like Shaggy off Scooby Doo and a lass pulls up next to me in a Focus and climbs into the back.
What an introduction to campervan life. Just our luck, honestly!
We basically bought the van with a summer trip in mind so I had a bit of prepping and redoing of things to get it up to scratch. We both worked really hard to get it sorted and put our stamp on it ready for our trip in July/August. My girlfriend got her sewing machine out and made curtains, bedspreads, all sorts. It was a real joint effort. Hard but really good fun. A proper team effort.
I fitted a set of van tyres instead of the cheap car ones it was on, added a roof rack, whitewalls and sorted loads of things out.
We were ready -
Our trip involved leaving from Colchester (thank god for southern relatives eh ), train to france then drive to Nancy for our first stay. We did this in one day. Quite hard going actually, the fan blowers packed up before we even left England and the van had a lovely big window for the sun to cook me through all day.
Anyway to Nancy in France -
We were only here for 2 nights so didn’t bother unpacking the roof rack. Lovely town with a great town square and restaurants etc.
Next it was straight on down to Switzerland. Interlakken (between-the-lakes), more precisely Lauterbrunnen. Beautiful place, just stunning. Green valleys surrounded by snow-capped mountains. Red hot too.
The view from our dinner table at night -
Now a guy at work had told me I must take my girlfriend up the Jungfrau. I said "Look we're not into that. We stumbled on that dogging spot by accident honestly!" , but he assured me he meant the mountain over looking Lauterbrunnen. He showed me it explaining there’s a rack railway to climb you up to the top, where there’s an ice palace, activities and great views.
It looked great and I kept banging on about it to my girlfriend in the run up to the holiday.
Here’s a few pics.
You can see the rack in the middle of the tracks. This enables the trains to climb really steep gradients.
Climbing away up out of the valley.
You'd think that the last town must be the last town , then you'd climb even higher and there'd be another.
Getting high now.
Once at the top it was amazing. We'd also, totally by chance, chosen to visit on the 100th anniversary to the day, of the opening of the railway and Swiss National Day, so there were special displays, etc and we got a little passport stamped, saying 100th year anniversary. Awesome day!
Ice palace!
Polar bear holding his plums. It was that cold.
Ice penguins
The saddle of Jungfrau. Sounds like a piece of S+M dungeon apparatus.
Wengen on the way back down. Again due to National day there were bands on and lots of hustle and bustle.
It was a really great day and when we got back to camp at night, again because it was Swiss National day there were fireworks going off all over. They’d echo three or four times in the valley. Again, such a lucky time to visit!
Now the next day we decided to have a lazy one as it was read hot and we’d walked a lot the day before. My girlfriend was so grumpy and at the finish I said something like “I bring you all the way out here and you sit with a face like a smacked arse!”. that’s when she told me she’d been expecting a marriage proposal. Oops!
We’d been together for 5 years and apparently I’d made such a fuss of the mountain she presumed there must something more to it. I’m a simple man so no there wasn’t. I was just looking forward to the ice penguins and a spot of sledging. Women!
Anyway, we got over it quickly. there’s no point falling out on holiday, we rarely fight at home, let alone on holliday. Next stop was supposed to be Italy but we nearly didn’t bother as there was so much to do in Switzerland, but we decided knowing how great this place was, imagine Italy was as good and we didn’t bother ourselves to go.
Next stop Lake Como via Lake Lugano -
Leaving Lauterbrunnen on a misty morning.
En route past Lake lugano.
Now by the time we got to Lake Como it was 1pm and baking hot. The sat nav kept getting us lost and we couldn't find our campsite. We looked at a couple of other ones but weren't too keen and after an hour of driving around the narrow roads, again being fried by the sun, I just said "Find us a bloody hotel!". So we did. Clean simple room, swimming pool and decent breakfasts.
Boy were we glad we'd made the effort to carry on. Lake Como was great. The weather, the food, the scenery, just great! I won't make it a thread of holiday snaps though. Well, not too much.
After Lake Como we headed back up through France. We stopped a night by a lake an English couple we met in Switzerland recommended. We were meant to stop for 2 or 3 but decided to push onto Reims and find another hotel. Quitters!
We had a good few days in Reims. Less pics of the van now as were hoteling it. We visited the old GP grandstands and pits. Really eerie. Very pleased I’ve been. The locals have been repainting the buildings to preserve them but I’d probably prefer them original. Nice of them to put the effort in though. We were up on the top floor of the grandstand and I heard a car coming pretty fast. I stuck my head out to see a 911 on UK plates fly past. Nice touch.
Reims GP buildings.
After a nice stay in Reims with some good pubs, restaurants and shopping we headed for home.
So apologies if this post is a bit self indulgent, it was the trip of a lifetime though, or at least one of them. Me and my wife worked as a great team and we had such a sense of freedom just hitting the road and doing things as we wanted. It made me realise what I already knew was true and that I should marry her. I had actually looked into it before the trip as our neighbour owned a bespoke jewellery shop but I hadn't left enough time to get a ring made. I was too busy fitting whitewalls and applying tyre-black.
The van did us proud and never missed a beat, bar the fans packing up. There were some dramas and issues like the extending pole from the awning springing shut and slicing right into the end of my thumb. We just bandaged it up though as I hadn’t driven all the way to Switzerland to sit in A+E.
The van developed one small fault of a clicking rear brake or driveshaft when turning right. That was worrying when climbing the steep mountain passes over the Alps to Italy. Also with it being lowered the tyres scrubbed the front arches when going over bumps. Not too bad normally but really bad with a full tank of fuel. Again adding to my disgruntled-ness by Como.
Also although it now had the Subaru motor in, the gearbox was the same old 4 speed and also, due to the shape of the van itself it didn't like being pushed through the air at much above 80mph, so we were still limited to just how much ground we could cover. We did do well over 400 miles one day though from Como back up into France.
All in all though a great van and a great trip. So how did I reward the van that carried us all over full of gear and becoming almost like an old friend?
Well we got back on the Saturday night and the van was driven off by its new owner on the Tueday afternoon.
Basically we bought it to do that trip. I’d used it as a daily car to ensure it’s reliability and now it was surplus to requirements as we wouldn’t get many more weekends away in it before the end of summer and it wasn't great as an everyday car. It sounded so cool mind you! people used to stop me everywhere and ask what was in it.
I put it on Ebay on the Saturday night and got a message instantly from a guy who repeatedly tried to buy it before I did, but he was away on holiday when the auction ended this time. He just said “I want the van, I’ll give you your asking price, no haggling. I’m not missing it twice!”.
He got the train up on the Tuesday and took it away. £6200 and I kept the roof rack and other parts as he already had one.
Another reason for selling was that more car changes were afoot. More on that next time….
Cheers.
You always run the risk of being accused of willy-waving in these threads, but anyone who knows me knows I’m not a poser and anything I buy, I buy for it’s purpose/abilities.
I’m glad people are enjoying it. I’m certainly enjoying recalling things I’d almost forgotten and also reminiscing over which cars I liked best.
I’ll add one more vehicle today. Now I only had this for about 3 months but I’ll remember it for life and not in a negative way. You’ll see why in a minute. One of those key vehicles in my journey through life.
It was now autumn 2011 and having sold the Global and the GSXR I had a bit of spare cash for another toy if I wanted. I decided on another 964 C2 to go alongside my 964T, but long story short, they had risen to more than my budget. After looking for a couple of months and wasting almost £1000 on inspections (they were long distances away) I knocked the idea on the head.
So I toyed with the idea of selling the 964T for £25k and adding the £15k budget to it. I mentioned on a couple of forums I might sell and had a couple of people enquire but no sale. I never advertised it though as I loved it and wasn’t too sure I was doing the right thing.
Spring 2012 rolled around and I really wanted to blow my money and do something enjoyable. One vehicle I’d always longed for was a VW camper van, but the old air-cooled ones are just too slow to cover ground. I began reading up, I’d been buying mags for years on and off anyway and I noticed people fitting Subaru engines in later vans, “the Brick” T25. Not pretty but starting to look retro cool in certain guises. The conversion was easy due to this model already being water-cooled, well the later ones.
I found this one for sale on Ebay down in south London. Converted panel van, 2.5N/A Subaru Legacy engine, all camper converted etc. I asked the seller what his buy it now was and he said it had been £10k, but he’d take £9k. I said “I have £8200 so he said ok. I said I’d let him no for definite the next day. Well it was into the last 12 hours of the auction by now and only upto £4k-something so I thought “I’m about to pay too much for this!”.
So I watched the auction end and bid. Got it for £5200. A bit cheeky but you have to try. Can’t believe I nearly wasted £3k. I rang the guy up and he said “You just got yourself a cheap van didn’t you!”.
Anyway, this is what it looked like when I bought it -
A bit like the Global the fun started with the journey home.
Me and the girlfriend went down and stopped at her sisters on the Friday night, in Colchester. We got up Saturday morning and headed around the M25 to the 6 o’clock position, sorry I forget the name of the place.
The guy showed us round the van and all the paperwork totalling thousands. We shook hands and off we went, me in the van and my lass in her Focus. I led the way getting us onto the road home, the A1 or M1, I can’t remember which.
We got as far north as Donnington Services and stopped for a rest. My girlfriend was knackered and truth be told so was I, mind you my lass just couldn’t wait to try out the camper really. We hatched a plan to wild camp somewhere and head home the next morning. We bought some blankets from the services and headed off in to the countryside a bit.
We had a nice steak and a beer at a country pub and it was starting to get dark. I said “we better be heading off and find somewhere to stay.”
So we drove for a few miles my girlfriend still following in the Focus obviously and found a big carpark near a reservoir. Lovely setting with the sun going down.
We got out and had a quick walk to check out the area and it seemed fine. We no sooner got back in to the van though and a Land Rover pulled up next to us. This guy on his own just sat staring in. I said to my girlfriend “He might be the warden waiting for us to go”, but he just sat there. I got the map out to pretend we weren’t staying but he didn’t budge. I gave him a couple of inquisitive looks and he eventually drove away.
Two minutes later though and a Peugeot 307 pulls in and parks right next to us. Now this was getting silly. A huge carpark but people making a bee line straight for us.
I said “Come on we’re away” so we headed to a travel inn back at the services, not for a room, just to wild camp in their carpark. Hardly Outer Mongolia but hey.
Once we got settled I said to the girlfriend “Google that reservoir and see what comes up”. Sure enough it flashed up “Derbyshires number one dogging spot”.
Phew, I think we had a lucky escape. The pervs must have thought Xmas had come early. I pull up in a campervan looking like Shaggy off Scooby Doo and a lass pulls up next to me in a Focus and climbs into the back.
What an introduction to campervan life. Just our luck, honestly!
We basically bought the van with a summer trip in mind so I had a bit of prepping and redoing of things to get it up to scratch. We both worked really hard to get it sorted and put our stamp on it ready for our trip in July/August. My girlfriend got her sewing machine out and made curtains, bedspreads, all sorts. It was a real joint effort. Hard but really good fun. A proper team effort.
I fitted a set of van tyres instead of the cheap car ones it was on, added a roof rack, whitewalls and sorted loads of things out.
We were ready -
Our trip involved leaving from Colchester (thank god for southern relatives eh
), train to france then drive to Nancy for our first stay. We did this in one day. Quite hard going actually, the fan blowers packed up before we even left England and the van had a lovely big window for the sun to cook me through all day. Anyway to Nancy in France -
We were only here for 2 nights so didn’t bother unpacking the roof rack. Lovely town with a great town square and restaurants etc.
Next it was straight on down to Switzerland. Interlakken (between-the-lakes), more precisely Lauterbrunnen. Beautiful place, just stunning. Green valleys surrounded by snow-capped mountains. Red hot too.
The view from our dinner table at night -
Now a guy at work had told me I must take my girlfriend up the Jungfrau. I said "Look we're not into that. We stumbled on that dogging spot by accident honestly!" , but he assured me he meant the mountain over looking Lauterbrunnen.
He showed me it explaining there’s a rack railway to climb you up to the top, where there’s an ice palace, activities and great views.It looked great and I kept banging on about it to my girlfriend in the run up to the holiday.
Here’s a few pics.
You can see the rack in the middle of the tracks. This enables the trains to climb really steep gradients.
Climbing away up out of the valley.
You'd think that the last town must be the last town , then you'd climb even higher and there'd be another.
Getting high now.
Once at the top it was amazing. We'd also, totally by chance, chosen to visit on the 100th anniversary to the day, of the opening of the railway and Swiss National Day, so there were special displays, etc and we got a little passport stamped, saying 100th year anniversary. Awesome day!
Ice palace!
Polar bear holding his plums. It was that cold.
Ice penguins
The saddle of Jungfrau. Sounds like a piece of S+M dungeon apparatus.
Wengen on the way back down. Again due to National day there were bands on and lots of hustle and bustle.
It was a really great day and when we got back to camp at night, again because it was Swiss National day there were fireworks going off all over. They’d echo three or four times in the valley. Again, such a lucky time to visit!
Now the next day we decided to have a lazy one as it was read hot and we’d walked a lot the day before. My girlfriend was so grumpy and at the finish I said something like “I bring you all the way out here and you sit with a face like a smacked arse!”. that’s when she told me she’d been expecting a marriage proposal. Oops!
We’d been together for 5 years and apparently I’d made such a fuss of the mountain she presumed there must something more to it. I’m a simple man so no there wasn’t. I was just looking forward to the ice penguins and a spot of sledging. Women!
Anyway, we got over it quickly. there’s no point falling out on holiday, we rarely fight at home, let alone on holliday. Next stop was supposed to be Italy but we nearly didn’t bother as there was so much to do in Switzerland, but we decided knowing how great this place was, imagine Italy was as good and we didn’t bother ourselves to go.
Next stop Lake Como via Lake Lugano -
Leaving Lauterbrunnen on a misty morning.
En route past Lake lugano.
Now by the time we got to Lake Como it was 1pm and baking hot. The sat nav kept getting us lost and we couldn't find our campsite. We looked at a couple of other ones but weren't too keen and after an hour of driving around the narrow roads, again being fried by the sun, I just said "Find us a bloody hotel!". So we did. Clean simple room, swimming pool and decent breakfasts.
Boy were we glad we'd made the effort to carry on. Lake Como was great. The weather, the food, the scenery, just great! I won't make it a thread of holiday snaps though. Well, not too much.
After Lake Como we headed back up through France. We stopped a night by a lake an English couple we met in Switzerland recommended. We were meant to stop for 2 or 3 but decided to push onto Reims and find another hotel. Quitters!
We had a good few days in Reims. Less pics of the van now as were hoteling it. We visited the old GP grandstands and pits. Really eerie. Very pleased I’ve been. The locals have been repainting the buildings to preserve them but I’d probably prefer them original. Nice of them to put the effort in though. We were up on the top floor of the grandstand and I heard a car coming pretty fast. I stuck my head out to see a 911 on UK plates fly past. Nice touch.
Reims GP buildings.
After a nice stay in Reims with some good pubs, restaurants and shopping we headed for home.
So apologies if this post is a bit self indulgent, it was the trip of a lifetime though, or at least one of them. Me and my wife worked as a great team and we had such a sense of freedom just hitting the road and doing things as we wanted. It made me realise what I already knew was true and that I should marry her. I had actually looked into it before the trip as our neighbour owned a bespoke jewellery shop but I hadn't left enough time to get a ring made. I was too busy fitting whitewalls and applying tyre-black.
The van did us proud and never missed a beat, bar the fans packing up. There were some dramas and issues like the extending pole from the awning springing shut and slicing right into the end of my thumb. We just bandaged it up though as I hadn’t driven all the way to Switzerland to sit in A+E.
The van developed one small fault of a clicking rear brake or driveshaft when turning right. That was worrying when climbing the steep mountain passes over the Alps to Italy. Also with it being lowered the tyres scrubbed the front arches when going over bumps. Not too bad normally but really bad with a full tank of fuel. Again adding to my disgruntled-ness by Como.
Also although it now had the Subaru motor in, the gearbox was the same old 4 speed and also, due to the shape of the van itself it didn't like being pushed through the air at much above 80mph, so we were still limited to just how much ground we could cover. We did do well over 400 miles one day though from Como back up into France.
All in all though a great van and a great trip. So how did I reward the van that carried us all over full of gear and becoming almost like an old friend?
Well we got back on the Saturday night and the van was driven off by its new owner on the Tueday afternoon.
Basically we bought it to do that trip. I’d used it as a daily car to ensure it’s reliability and now it was surplus to requirements as we wouldn’t get many more weekends away in it before the end of summer and it wasn't great as an everyday car. It sounded so cool mind you! people used to stop me everywhere and ask what was in it.
I put it on Ebay on the Saturday night and got a message instantly from a guy who repeatedly tried to buy it before I did, but he was away on holiday when the auction ended this time. He just said “I want the van, I’ll give you your asking price, no haggling. I’m not missing it twice!”.
He got the train up on the Tuesday and took it away. £6200 and I kept the roof rack and other parts as he already had one.
Another reason for selling was that more car changes were afoot. More on that next time….
Cheers.
Edited by marky911 on Monday 26th January 16:53
Thanks again lads.
Only a couple of years to update now, so about 5 cars left. 6 if i update it after Saturday as I've just bought another E36 to tinker with if I ever get any time that is.
Cheers for that Craig. That is gorgeous. To be honest though I'd rather have a standard one. I love the wheels and paint on that one but i don't like all these front mount intercoolers and silicone hoses. I'm getting old.
I do keep an eye out on Ebay and i maybe should have held out for one but I've just paid a deposit on an E36 328 Sport, funnily enough in Montreal Blue again like my last one. Off to Cambridge on saturday for it. It's off the other thread on here. Not perfect but sounds straight and the lad is only the 3rd owner and the first two were brothers. I just wanted something i can tinker with myself and bring back up to scratch over a couple of years.
I looked at M3s again but I don't go daft on the road and they're too heavy to track and I've always said the 328 Sport is the best of the bunch for performance versus running costs. I'll be able to tinker on and run it for a couple of years then hopefully keep it when I get another 911, but if I need the money out of it I shouldn't lose my shirt.
Only a couple of years to update now, so about 5 cars left. 6 if i update it after Saturday as I've just bought another E36 to tinker with if I ever get any time that is.
Cheers for that Craig. That is gorgeous. To be honest though I'd rather have a standard one. I love the wheels and paint on that one but i don't like all these front mount intercoolers and silicone hoses. I'm getting old.
I do keep an eye out on Ebay and i maybe should have held out for one but I've just paid a deposit on an E36 328 Sport, funnily enough in Montreal Blue again like my last one. Off to Cambridge on saturday for it. It's off the other thread on here. Not perfect but sounds straight and the lad is only the 3rd owner and the first two were brothers. I just wanted something i can tinker with myself and bring back up to scratch over a couple of years.
I looked at M3s again but I don't go daft on the road and they're too heavy to track and I've always said the 328 Sport is the best of the bunch for performance versus running costs. I'll be able to tinker on and run it for a couple of years then hopefully keep it when I get another 911, but if I need the money out of it I shouldn't lose my shirt.
Ok, so after we got back in August 2012 and I sold the camper van, I needed another everyday car. My mate James had this E46 325 coupe. He got offered £1200 trade in. He was buying a Tow car for his track day 205GTi. I gave him the £1200 for it. I'd had 4 E36s but never an E46 yet. i fitted the BBS LM reps. It already had the stainless exhaust which sounded lovely.
Great car and in hindsight I should have stopped there for a year or two.
Better update next time.
Great car and in hindsight I should have stopped there for a year or two.
Better update next time.
I've just spent the past hour and a half reading this thread from start to your latest update. Loved hearing about your first few cars and the mishaps along the way.
I am in the habit of keeping the same cars for 3-5 years at a time, but having read this, I think I'm missing out on all the excitement (and maybe headaches?) of changing cars more often. Hopefully I'll be able to make a similar thread when I'm your age.
I also think your story is a prime example of how cars are so much more than just material items.
Looking forward to your next update.
I am in the habit of keeping the same cars for 3-5 years at a time, but having read this, I think I'm missing out on all the excitement (and maybe headaches?) of changing cars more often. Hopefully I'll be able to make a similar thread when I'm your age.
I also think your story is a prime example of how cars are so much more than just material items.
Looking forward to your next update.
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